There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.
You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'
I like to write sad songs. They're much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people don't want to hear them as much. And radio definitely doesn't; they want that positive, uptempo thing.